While Silicon Valley continues pushing aggressively into large language models and consumer-facing AI products, many European companies are focused on applying AI to complex systems already embedded into everyday life.

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.

Pinterest is adding support for Amazon Storefronts, allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions more easily while showcasing their product recommendations in one place.

Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.

ServiceNow is used by thousands of enterprises to automate their internal processes, but says several customers had data accessed because of a security bug.

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.

Users under 16 years old will get a separate profile to show Stories and Spotlight posts to friends that they follow back.

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.

Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.

Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.

The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.

The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.

Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.

Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest in startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.

GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.